Mark Zuckerberg has made it through the Senate hearing in-tact, but may face bigger challenges ahead as the FTC has opened an investigation into the matter. No matter what happens, lawmakers are talking about setting up future laws to more closely monitor internet security.

Headlines Loom but the Show-Must-Go-On

Despite the prominent headlines, behind the scenes, some aspects of the company are business-as-usual. Facebook Stories added two new features this week—AR doodling (the company calls this 3D drawing) and Boomerangs, which play a clip front to back and to front again instead of just repeating it. The new features are an attempt to make the stories feature more popular.

The Pew Research Center released a study on “Bots in Twittersphere”, finding that nearly 2/3 of all tweeted links to popular websites are posted by automated accounts rather than human beings. However, the highest incidence of bot shares did not occur on political or news sites, but rather on adult content, sports and commercial products.